To reach their full potential, children need high-quality health care and services—especially in life’s early years. Health promotion, safety, disease prevention, and early identification and treatment during these earliest years lay the foundation for healthy development.
Mounting evidence that health during childhood sets the stage for adult health creates an important ethical, social, and economic imperative to ensure that all children are as healthy as they can be. Healthy children are more likely to become healthy adults. FPG's scientists study many aspects of child health and development—from prenatal health to infant brain development to stress management in adolescents.
Featured FPG News Story
Evelyn Shaw knows the importance of early identification of hearing loss in young children and is committed to improving outcomes for these children and their families. Last month, she and Sharon Walsh, an external consultant for ECTA and the DaSy Center, presented two sessions at the Early Hearing Detection and Intervention national conference.
Featured Publication
Children who live in areas with natural spaces from birth may experience fewer emotional issues between the ages of 2 and 5, according to a study funded by the NIH Environmental Influences on Child Health Outcomes (ECHO) program. Nissa Towe-Goodman a research scientist at FPG, lead this collaborative research.
Featured Research Project
FPG implementation specialists from the National Implementation Research Network (NIRN) are working to support the development of early childhood practitioners’ ability to care for children and get them ready for kindergarten by improving their capacity for implementation of interventions in primary care settings.
